Social Science category: 175800 books
Time-Space Compression
Historical Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth’s surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time appear as "natural" and outside of society, they are in fact social constructions; every society develops...
Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Topical Issues and New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Presenting a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security has become, for the International Social Security Association, a tradition and a firm commitment. Benefiting from the vast quantity of information uniquely available to the ISSA, its triennial...
Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey
Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The transformations in alternative media, journalism and social protest in contemporary Turkey have largely occurred due to the upsurge in use of social media. Some of the most fervent users of social media in the world come from Turkey where forms of social media are frequently banned by the Turkish...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The Handbook of Applied System Science is organized around both methodological approaches in systems science, and the substantive topic to which these approaches have been applied. The volume begins with an essay that introduces three system science methods: agent-based modeling, system dynamics,...
The Political Economy of European Social Democracy
A Critical Realist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’...
The Trouble with Nature
Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...
by Eileen Oak
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
This significant and distinctive text demonstrates the relationship between social work and sociological theory. It provides students with a strong knowledge base to support the development of critical social work practice.
By integrating both theory and practice to cover a wide range of sociological...
by Wendy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence—and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection.
Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride...
Sobre la diferenciación social
Investigaciones sociológicas y psicológicas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2017
El escrito que se ofrece en este volumen constituye el primer libro sociológico de Georg Simmel, inédito hasta ahora en español. Partiendo del principio de que "todo está en un intercambio de efectos con todo”, el sociólogo y filósofo berlinés, que al momento de publicación de este...
Understanding Terrorism
Building on the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists...
PEDAGOGIA DA MEDIOCRIDADE
O INDIVIDUALISMO & A MERITOCRACIA SISTEMATIZADOS COMO OS VALORES DA ESCOLA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 18, 2014
(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada - globalização da globalização e dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista - trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas que ela não sabe e não sabe resolver.
Problemas relacionados às dimensões humanas,...
by Ted Benton
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to positivist and empiricist accounts of the physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism...
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society. The four paradigms - Functionalist, Interpretive, Radical Humanist...
by Kevin McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Practices – specific, recurrent types of human action and activity – are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of practices is essential to effective social-scientific inquiry. It develops a philosophical...